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U.S. Occupation of Japan
Experiment in Democracy
Wartime images
Kikuchi Shunkichi, c. 1940. Japan Photographers Association, A Century of Japanese Photography, p. 329
Nikudan sanyûshi
Wartime propaganda
• U.S. betrays its ideals• Japanese propaganda betrays its prejudices
Images taken from Dower, War Without Mercy
Goals
• Demilitarization (demobilization; Article Nine)
• Democratization• Post1947/48 “Reverse Course”
– Reconstruction– Pressure for remilitarization
Gen. Douglas MacArthur (SCAP)
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Emperor visits MacArthur
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Russian Perspective?
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American tutelage?
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Public education
Ohara collection
“First of all, gather your courage and speak up.”
Poster from first Postwar General Election, 1946
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Source: http://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/e/img_l/S036/S036-001l.html; translation by Orr
Ministry of Education poster: What do we build a new Japan with? With the life that wells up from within the people, not just with the lives of men, but of women too. What shape does the force that wells up from below take? With the peoples’ honestly written individual votes of political participation. Not just a men’s votes but women’s too. So it’s a precious thing....
Sazae-san (cf. Blondie)
http://www.asij.ac.jp/elementary/projects/japanmro/Nina/
Tokyo 1945
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Tokyo 1945
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Hara Setsuko
Misora Hibari (“Tokyo Kid”)
Yoshida Shigeru
“Kantei” photo
San Francisco Treaty, 1951
Copyright 2001 Uldis Kruze and the University of San Diego
Courtesy: San Francisco Public Library